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“Torrents of Spring” by Philip Mead [Introduced by Thomas Moody]
If T.S. Eliot had been writing in Australia, "The Waste Land" might have opened "September is the cruelest month". Spring has just arrived in the Southern Hemisphere, and on the east coast of Australia…
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György Ligeti (1923-2006)
How many of you listen to "modern music" (i.e. Boulez, Stockhausen, Cage, Kurtág, Xenakis, etc.) for sheer pleasure? I've been into this stuff since very early childhood so it's just as pleasurable for me…
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The Proud Beggar [by Tom Disch]
Am I happy to have livedWhen and where I didAmerica The 20th centuryI've often said soGrateful anyhow for my good luckBut I'll be happier soonTo have shed both when and whereMy landlord has had…
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“Made Bed” [by Beth Gylys]
Made Bed He could have been my lover again that night—a whisper of dress lifting over ears,the tie unknotting, the sheets predictably white, the fumbling urgency leaving us breathless, lightfrom lust tinged by guilt,…
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L’Shana Tova: “For I Will Consider Your Dog Molly” [poem by David Lehman]
Molly with Stick, Cayuga Lake, 1981 (c) Glen Hartley For I will Consider Your Dog Molly For it was the first day of Rosh Ha’shanah, New Year’s Day, day of remembrance, of ancient…
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Laura Orem: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
__________________________________________________________________________________________ Bald Remember, remember that boy who could not love…
